Category: layoffs

Essential may be at work on making an AI-focused alternative smartphone that operates mainly on voice commands, but it’ll have to do so with a significantly reduced staff. Essential has confirmed that it is laying off a large portion of its staff, which Bloomberg reports amounts to roughly 30 percent of the 120-person workforce — mainly in the hardware and sales divisions.
In a statement to Android Police the company wrote:
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